Pinarayi Cabinet 2.0: Know your ministers

By Express News Service
With the oath-taking ceremony of the second Pinarayi Vijayan-led LDF authorities set to happen on Thursday, right here’s a listing of his cabinet colleagues

A troublesome taskmaster  

A troublesome taskmaster, Pinarayi Vijayan might steadfastly maintain collectively the CPM and the Left Democratic Front in Kerala whereas Left actions had faltered with out a lot resistance in Tripura and West Bengal which had been purple forts for a number of a long time. His willpower and pragmatism helped broaden the help base of the LDF within the state with individuals from all castaes, faith and financial courses lending help to his management.

During the robust days of floods, cyclone and pandemic, Pinarayi unwaveringly led the state ahead and the re-election of LDF stood out as an affidavit to his management expertise. He took a break from parliamentary politics to develop into CPM state secretary in 1998. After being on the helm of CPM for 16 years, he contested once more in 2016 and have become the chief minister. This time, voters gave him a majority of fifty,123 votes from the identical constituency. He is presently a CPM politburo member. Earlier, Pinarayi had been elected to the meeting in 1970, 1977, 1991 and 1996.

Except Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan from CPM, A Okay Saseendran from NCP and Okay Krishnankutty from Janata Dal(S), all different ministers are recent faces. Okay Radhakrishnan, who was elected from Chelakkara constituency, was SC/ST Welfare Minister within the E Okay Nayanar cabinet in 1996. He additionally served because the meeting speaker from 2006 to 2011. 

J Chinchu Rani, 56, CPI .Chadayamangalam. Education: SSLC Chinchurani is the second girl minister from CPI (after Okay R Gowri who had been a part of the 1957 cabinet). She started her public life by associating with Balavedi and AISF. She is the state president of Kerala Mahila Sangham. Her husband D Sukesan is a CPI native chief in Kollam.

Roshy Augustine, 52, KC(M) Idukki. Education: BScRoshy Augustine entered politics by way of KSC(M), the scholars’ wing of Kerala Congress(M). After his unsuccessful contest from Perambra constituency in 1996 at 27, Mani provided a ticket to Roshy within the 2001 meeting elections from Idukki. Roshy, who received from Idukki in 2001, has by no means tasted defeat since then. 

P Rajeeve, 54, CPM Kalamassery. Education: LLBA native of Meladoor in Thrissur, Rajeeve has been residing in Kalamassery for the previous a number of years. Rajeeve, who started his public life as an SFI organiser, earned appreciation slicing throughout occasion strains as Rajya Sabha MP from 2009-2015. He is a member of the CPM state secretariat and served as Ernakulam district secretary. 

Okay Radhakrishnan,57, CPM  Chelakkara. Education: BA EconomicsA native of Thonnoorkara in Chelakkara, Radhakrishnan entered politics by way of SFI whereas finding out at Thrissur Kerala Varma College. He has represented Chelakkara constituency within the meeting for five phrases. In the primary time period, he was made SC/ST Welfare minister within the E Okay Nayanar cabinet in 1996. He served because the meeting speaker from 2006 to 2011. 

Okay Rajan, 48, CPI  Ollur. Education: BSc, LLB Ollur constituency has by no means given a second time period for a candidate throughout the previous 4 a long time. The CPI has named Okay Rajan who served as authorities chief whip throughout the earlier time period as minister as he broke the jinx connected to Ollur. Rajan is a state government member of the CPI and had been AIYF nationwide secretary. 

Okay Krishnankutty, 76,  JD(S)   Chittur. Education: High SchoolOkay Krishnankutty was water assets minister within the outgoing Pinarayi Vijayan authorities. A local of Chittur in Palakkad, Okay Krishnankutty is a farmer and an skilled in inter-state river-water sharing treaties. He is the state president of the Janata Dal (S). 

Veena George, 44, CPM Aranmula. Education: Msc Veena George is a journalist-turned-politician. She stop her job to contest the election from Aranmula in 2016. Veena’s management qualities have been seen throughout the 2018 floods which had affected Pathanamthitta badly.

A Okay Saseendran, 75, NCP  Elathur. Education: Diploma in Ayurveda Medicine A local of Chovva in Kannur, Saseendran began his political profession as a KSU employee. He was the district president of KSU from 1963-1966 and its state president from 1978-1980 and state president of Youth Congress. He later joined Congress(S) and his occasion merged with NCP when the latter was fashioned. The six-time MLA was first elected to the meeting in 1980 from Peringalam in Kannur. He served because the transport minister within the outgoing LDF authorities. 

R Bindu, 54, CPM Irinjalakuda. Education: PhD 

Wife of CPM state secretary A Vijayaraghavan, she is a central committee member of All-India Democratic Women’s Association. She was the primary girl mayor of Thrissur. She was the pinnacle of the division of English and vice-principal of Thrissur Kerala Varma College. 

M V Govindan, 68, CPM  Taliparamba. Education: DiplomaThought of a celebration ideologue from Kannur, M V Govindan is a central committee member and one of many high leaders of CPM within the state. He is a member of the CPM state secretariat. A former DYFI state president, M V Govindan had served because the Chief Editor of occasion mouthpiece Deshabhimani for a while. He is a three-time MLA, and has received from Taliparamba constituency. 

P A MOHAMED RIYAS, 45, CPM, Beypore. Education LLBNational president of DYFI, P A Mohamed Riyas began his political profession by way of SFI whereas finding out at St Joseph’s High School. He was instrumental in breaking the MSF monopoly at Farooq College in 1997. He had unsuccessfully contested from Kozhikode constituency within the 2009 LS polls. Pinarayi Vijayan’s daughter T Veena is his spouse. 

Ahamed Devarkovil, 61, INL  Kozhikode South. Education: Pre-degree A local of Kozhikode, Ahamed started his political life as a Muslim Students Federation activist. He has been with the organisation because the formation of the INL beneath the management of Ebrahim Sulaiman Sait. Ahamed is presently INL nationwide basic secretary. He defeated IUML’s Noorbina Rasheed within the election. 

V Abdurahiman, 59, National Secular Conference Tanur. Education: SSLCWinning twice from a constituency that IUML saved as its citadel for greater than 5 a long time helped V Abdurahiman discover a place within the authorities. He began his political profession in KSU. He left Congress in 2014 and contested unsuccessfully in opposition to IUML from Ponnani Lok Sabha seat as an LDF candidate. 

V Sivankutty, 66, CPM  Nemom. Education: BA V Sivankutty enters the cabinet with the excellence of successful again BJP’s lone sitting seat within the state. He was the state president of SFI and had served because the president of Ulloor panchayat and Mayor of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation. He is presently a state committee member of CPM and CITU state secretary. His spouse Parvathy Devi is the daughter of CPM ideologue the late P Govinda Pillai. 

Antony Raju, 66, Democratic Kerala Congress  Thiruvananthapuram. Education: BA, LLB

Antony Raju trounced sitting MLA V S Sivakumar to win the Thiruvananthapuram constituency. He began his political profession as the scholar chief of KSC, a feeder organisation of the Kerala Congress. 

G R Anil, 58, CPI  Nedumangad. Education: BA, LLBAnil received the maiden meeting election from Nedumangad. He had earlier served because the well being and training standing committee chairman of T’Puram company. He is presently the district secretary of CPI. His spouse R Lathadevi is a former MLA. 

Okay N Balagopal, 57, CPM  Kottarakkara. Education: MCom, LLM This is Balagopal’s maiden time period within the meeting. He had been a Rajya Sabha member. During the tenure of V S Achuthanandan, he had been his political secretary. His political life started in SFI and he went on to develop into nationwide president of SFI and DYFI. 

Speaker   M B Rajesh, 50, CPM  Thrithala. Education: LLB A two-time MP, he wrested Thrithala constituency from the Congress which it had held for a decade. He had served as district secretary, state secretary and All-India joint secretary of SFI and DYFI state and nationwide president. He is a CPM state committee member.

Saji Cheriyan, 56, CPM  Chengannur. Education: LLBHe started his political profession by way of SFI throughout his pre-degree research at Chengannur Christian College. He was first elected to the meeting in a bypoll necessitated following the loss of life of the Chengannur MLA in 2018. He was earlier unsuccessfully contested in opposition to P C Vishnunadh from the identical constituency. He was SFI district president, DYFI district secretary and CPM district secretary.

P Prasad, 51, CPI  Cherthala. Education: BA A local of Palamel in Alappuzha, he started his political profession by way of AISF. Later, he labored as AISF state president and state government member. He had additionally been an extra non-public secretary to former minister Binoy Viswom and Thiruvananthapuram unit supervisor of Janayugom, CPI mouthpiece. 

V N Vasavan, 66, CPM  Ettumanoor.  Education: SSLC, ITI Vasavan entered politics by way of SFI. He was elected the CPM district secretary in 2015. After his unsuccessful contest in opposition to Oommen Chandy in Puthuppally in 1987 and 1991 meeting elections, he grew to become an MLA in 2006 from Kottayam constituency. 

Deputy Speaker  Chittayam Gopakumar, 56, CPI  Adoor. Education: SSLC A 3-time MLA from Adoor, he had began his political profession as an activist of AISF and held numerous positions in AIYF and Kisan Sabha. A former panchayat president of Kottarakkara, he had additionally served as Agriculture Workers’ Welfare Board chairman.

3 Districts — T’Puram, Thrissur and Kozhikode — get three ministers. No illustration for Wayanad and Kasaragod. 

In the outgoing cabinet, there was illustration for Kasaragod (Okay Chandrasekharan, Revenue Minister), however not for Wayanad.